At the last day of the festival, Friday, September 17, Brian Knep will give an artist talk in front of the Bulgarian audience. The American artist is invited to DA FEST 2010 to present his interactive installations Erect and Healing. Besides these two pieces Knep has lots of other artistic...
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The second edition of the international digital art festival, organized by the National Academy of Art in Sofia start on Monday, September 13th. More than 30 artists are coming to present new trends, digital experiments, sound and visual performances, interactive installations and many oth...
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Extended deadline for DA FEST workshops

The application deadline for workshop participants DA Fest 2010 extended to 5 September 2010.We received several requests to prolong enrollment for the workshops because people were still on holidays. so we've decided to move the deadline to Sep 5.Students and profess...
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At the last day of the festival, Friday, September 17, Brian Knep will give an artist talk in front of the Bulgarian audience. The American artist is invited to DA FEST 2010 to present his interactive installations Erect and Healing. Besides these two pieces Knep has lots of other artistic and research projects, which deserve to be seen at the public presentation at Studio 7, on Friday, from 6.30 pm.

Brian Knep is a new-media artist who uses science and technology to explore change, healing, struggle, and acceptance. Often his works are dynamic and respond to changes in their environment. Some are simply aware of the passage of time while others are interactive, sensing and reacting to the people around them. Knep has had solo shows at the New Britain Museum of American Art, the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and Arizona State University and has been part of group shows at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Laval Virtual in France, MobileArt in Sweden, and the Insa Art Center in Korea, among others. His works have won awards from Ars Electronica, Americans for the Arts, AICA/New England and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2005 Knep became the first artist-in-residence at Harvard Medical School in a program co-sponsored by Harvard's Office for the Arts. Knep lives and works in Boston and is represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NY.

The second edition of the international digital art festival, organized by the National Academy of Art in Sofia start on Monday, September 13th. More than 30 artists are coming to present new trends, digital experiments, sound and visual performances, interactive installations and many other inter-disciplinary forms, which can be seen from 13th to 17th September at the Academy at 1, Shipka Street.

Everyone is invited to visit the curatorial exhibition during the day, to see the films and video screenings in the afternoon, to attend the artist's talk or the presentation scheduled after that. The evening programme includes various performances and a party in the courtyard of the Academy. Free entry to all events!

The official Opening Ceremony will be held on 13th September at 8.00 p.m. in “Academia” Gallery, where the hosts will be welcoming all the guests. The festival will start with the performance of "Le Code" by Yoann Trellu, a multidisciplinary artist working actively in the field of visual arts, dance and video productions. Afterwards there is a special audio-visual performance by the famous Bulgarian band Bluba Lu.

The full festival programme and detailed information for the events and participants in DA FEST 2010 can be obtained at the festival website.

Each workshop has 15 available places, of which 8 are reserved for current and former students of the National Academy of Art. The remaining places will be distributed among the other candidates.

The working language of all workshops is English.

To apply for participation in one of the workshops, fill in the application form on the festival website.

Applicants are requested to submit a brief curriculum vitae and motivation for their participation in the workshop.

The fee for participation is 100 leva per person per workshop. Students and graduates of the academy receive a 50% discount.

DeadlinesThe deadline for applications is September 1 2010.

Selected applicants will be notified by September 5 2010 and are requested to confirm their participation by September 7 2010.

Should you have any questions, you can contact us by email at da_fest@nha.bg

About DA FestDA Fest is organised by the National Academy of Art in Sofia, Bulgaria. The festival programme includes performances, film and video screenings, workshops, presentations and an exhibition, focusing on contemporary artistic trends in research and technology, and aims to present important advances in the development of digital arts. All events take place at Shipka Str 1, from September 13 to 17, 2010.

“The co-evolution of humans and machines has been the underlying subject of my work for several years. I am interested in how humans create at an increasingly rapid rate tools and prosthesis of exponential complexity...
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